I agree. Unfortunately fiverr.com has many merit sellers.
Anywhere from $10 per merit upwards
That's insane. I haven't been doing much reading on the forum for the past couple of weeks and thus haven't really noticed the level of garbage posting, but are there still a lot of bounties going on? I thought a lot of them had died off--and I haven't seen a lot of merit-begging threads in quite some time, so I sorta figured the market for merits dried up. Guess not.
I don't think he's going to use his merits to sneak an alt into a sig campaign or for any more nefarious purpose. Even if he has one or more alts that he's merited, he doesn't really use them for anything other than to bolster his own ego.
That would be a bad use of the merit system in any case, though I don't think it would be tag-worthy. Just my opinion, however.
It died down alot, sure, with merit introduction.
But people will be people, and always find a way around it. If you check any thread, you'll still see rainbow of signatures